They thought it was all in good fun, and that Jaune didn't take it at face value... however, in truth he did. It truly annoyed him that he was so outm...tched, and taunted even by his alleged friends, teammates, and even his partner who at a point stopped defending him so much.At some point, Jaune just so happened upon an online entrancing course. His interest caught, he chose to give it his time to get familiar with the techniques for trance-like influence, having this in his arsenal, that. .. well, maybe he hadn’t. He held his ground and dealt out plenty of his casualties, but his lines thinned out continually, which meant that our victory would be complete and we wouldn’t have to take that many prisoners by the end. The word “wizard” was supposed to indicate wisdom, but I had yet to see any proof of that. The bad news was that his fierce resistance cost us considerably in blood and treasure to quash any opposition from said camp.“Any captives yet? Any surrenders at all?” I. ” Grown up? I was 43. It seemed like I could have been told about this sometime in the past 20 years. “We got off the boat without even having a proper visa. We were just tourists on a year-long trip to see the continent like American youths went to Europe. American teens headed for Amsterdam for the drugs. We headed for San Francisco.”“What happened?”“We met a nice couple, a little older than us, who invited us to stay with them on a ranch in Montana. They worked us hard for little food and no. My eyes flew open. ‘Don’t worry. I won’t flush,’ Danna said. My hard on quickly died. I dressed for dinner in a polo shirt and khakis when I really wanted to be wearing whatever sweats and t-shirt hadn’t been nabbed by Danna, but she said it was a special occasion. I felt the need to dress for it. I made the right call when I saw Danna plating up the food in the kitchen. Her red hair was more auburn, dark and sultry in the styled waves that flowed down past her shoulders. She turned to see me.